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Standing by the open door of the house their eyes met those belonging to Lucy Ashley and behind her Natsu Dragion. After spotting Pantherlily they found him clung to the bandaged covered leg of Mystogan. Jellal and Gajeel were still fixed in their spots dead center of the house.

"What are all of you doing here", Lucy Ashley growled with the look of anger plastered across her face.

"Don't get feisty with us, aren't you suppose to be back in Edolas", Lucy growled back.

"Well duh, but because of your stupid world we were kind of forced into the situation", Ashley snapped.

"We're here for YOUR dear friend who was here unannounced", Lucy puffed her chest out as she crossed her arms below her breast.

"Calm down you two, let's give each other the chance to explain", Laxus was able to pitch in.

Natsu lead Lucy to a couch while Ashley dragged her Natsu to the couch across from them.

"This may actually be able to benefit us", Gajeel snapped out of his daze.

"What do you mean", Mystogan asked with his voice muffled by the cloth hiding part of his face.

Snapping out of his own daze, Jellal answered, "We happen to have a situation that originally included us saving Knightwalker as well."

His statement seemed to worry Mystogan and Dragion while Ashley was still to furious to realize.

"You know what happened to her", Dragion exclaimed.

Mystogan focused on their visitors at this point now.

"Jellal, Gajeel, we'll talk upstairs. I need someone to watch over Erza though", Mystogan pleaded.

Wendy, Carla, Happy, and Wakaba all silently went over to Knightwalker's side to watch over her as requested. She seemed to have a fever and sweats. They found it best to get some cold water and a blanket to cool her body while also forcing her to sweat away the sickness.

Jellal and Gajeel followed Mystogan up the stairs to a hall with five rooms.

"We're sharing the place with a nice elderly couple who use to have a lot of children", Mystogan explained.

"Oh, they must be the couple that found Knightwalker in the woods", Gajeel stated.

"No, what makes you say that", Mystogan questions.

"Well, we came across a lady who seems to know quite a lot and led us here. She said that Knightwalker was found by a couple in the woods and was being nursed back to health by them and some friends", Jellal responded.

Mystogan could not help let out a small laugh as he smiled and turned his face so they could not see him.

"What's so funny", Jellal asked.

While still turned around Mystogan answered, "It was Lucy and Natsu who discovered her."

Jellal just stared at him while Gajeel began to laugh himself.

"I'm so gonna take advantage of this now", Gajeel chuckled.

With his words a gleam of light sparked mischievously in his eyes.

"That aside let's go in my room", Mystogan guided them to the last door on the left.

After arriving in their room, Mystogan sat on his bed as he removed the cloth covering his mouth while Gajeel sat at either end of a couch against the wall opposite the door.

"Can you first explain why, or how you and the others got here? It may be able to help us understand the situation a little better since Knightwalker did not know how she got here when we first ran across her", Jellal asked.

"Originally, Knightwalker went missing right after a few of the guards did", Mystogan stated.

"Wait, She did tell us that the last day she remembered back in Edolas was that all of her guards weren't watching her", Jellal jumped in.

Mystogan's face became puzzled as he said this.

"A strange aura began to fill the air in the capital one day and never went away. I sent a few soldiers out to look for the source of it, but they never came back. At one point I sent more out to look for the missing soldiers. I made sure to tell them to not let Erza go unguarded. When I was doing check ups I noticed that no one was in her area, including her. I got upset and thought she had ran so I sent soldiers after her. They never found her though and only one returned back to the capital. He was out of breath and worried. I tried to get information out of him, but he ended up collapsing in front of me and going into a coma. I figured that I should just go myself to find her and during my journey I came across a strange black cloud hovering alone in the forest. I was weary to go near it; however, at the same time I ran into a few Fairy Tail members as well. They explained that Levy's machine caught wind of something bad in the world and lead them to that location, after I explained myself", Mystogan reasoned.

Gajeel and and Jellal just stared intently at Mystogan without a single flinch as he spoke. After hearing about the black hole and the weird aura Jellal thought it might be the same cause to the aura he sensed back at the games. If the time matched than that could be a connection.

"They said that it was there for awhile and was the cause of the air's foul aura. All they could tell me about it otherwise was that it meant no good", Mystogan continued.

Jellal stopped him there to interrupt, "Do you know roughly when it appeared, or at least when the air changed?"

Mystogan sat there for a few seconds to think over and then came to a conclusion, "We have been here for about a week in a half and we just found Knightwalker about a week ago. Why?"

"That's about the same time I realized it as well. It must not have been as strong here as it was there so not many people noticed. I know Ultear and Meredy did not notice", Jellal concluded.

"So maybe it was an entrance to your world somehow", Mystogan added.

"But who created it and what is the purpose behind it", Gajeel questioned.

"Was", Mystogan spoke out.

"What do you mean, 'was'", jellal asked.

"It disappeared after me and the others got sucked in", Mystogan answered.

This just made Gajeel and Jellal even more curious.

"It just sucked you in", Gajeel pointed out in question.

"Not right away, but for some odd reason a whirlwind of air started to gather around us. We seemed to be being pulled towards it as it shrank and after being sucked in, the light from our world began to grow thinner until it was dark, but then I became unconscious and awoke with the others in the middle of no where just surrounded by trees and the sun", Mystogan finished.

"Is it just you four", Jellal asked.

"No, there is also two others. Gajeel and Juvia", Mystogan spoke lower in tone.

"Your Gajeel is not even in Fairy Tail", Gajeel groaned with a smirk.

"He's always near an interesting story though, and Juvia happened to run after Lucy and Natsu to give them a heads up, but it was to late and now she has forgotten it", Mystogan said softly.

"That information may have been important, we may need her to try and remember, but for now we have to get Knightwalker feeling better", Jellal roughly spoke.

After Mystogan explained his situation with the others Jellal and Gajeel explained their troubles and their current situation with the traitor back in the swamp. At the end of the discussion the three made their way downstairs to let them know their on the same page and should help each other out. For now they would stay with them and help Knightwalker until She awoke and they heard back from Warren.

A few days had passed since their meet and nothing had changed. Knightwalker was still in the same physical state and no word has come from the others until one cloudy evening.

Some static began to arise in the air for those from Earthland until a croaky voice emerged.

"Everyone okay", Freed called out breathlessly.

"Yeah, why? What happened", Wendy became frantic.

"We found the traitor kind of", Freed exhaled.

"What do you mean kind of and why are you out of breath", Wakaba sounded worried.

Back at the swamp

Everyone had just departed for the guild or Joya so it was just six of them left. Lady Laura seemed to have no problem with their stay and decided to put a few to work. She knew she would have to get close to one of them to talk freely. They were in a tight situation and she knew others would be coming soon, but she could not see exactly how and she did not know who to tell this to, so she decided she would have to trust they could handle the situation when it arose.

One young lady did tend to stick close by the second day. It could be bad news though. Trying to get her to talk to get information would not do.

One early afternoon while out in her man made garden collecting herbs a you girl named Lisanna ran to her side.

"Miss Laura, We can't seem to find Freed and Warren, They were suppose to be back thirty minutes ago", Lisanna cried out.

She knew it would be happening soon and she hoped it would bring the odd one out to light of the situation, but she only counted one, not two.

"Where were they suppose to be", Laura asked.

"Freed was doing his daily round to check for anyone mysterious and Warren accompanied him in case they ran into trouble", Lisanna worried.

"Do the others know", Laura asked.

"Not yet, I wanted to come straight to you first", she frantically responded.

"I see, well two of you are down which leaves us with four. Whoever it is found Freed and Warren and brought them down so they must be heading our way. Have Ms. Mira stay back here as well as yourself and have Elfman and Nab go get the young men", Laura instructed.

Lisanna just nodded and rushed off to the others.

Laura decided now was the time to observe the others closely. As she reached for the back door of her cottage she was sent flying backwards from an explosion and almost knocked her out if it weren't for dear Lisanna who had rushed to catch her. In front of her eyes appeared Mirajane and two unknown figures.

"Who are they", Laura tried to sound surprised.

"In all honesty we've never come across these two before and they don't speak much", Lisanna cooed.

"Where are the others", Mira yelled towards the two strangers.

They had no reply and just dashed forward.

Mira was able to dodge their attacks with no sweat and tried again and again for them to spill what they knew.

"How did you know about Freed's barriers. What about our location. Who do you work with", Mira pushed them for answers.

She found no need to go into her demon form to deal with them. They may have seemed smart getting through the barriers, but they showed no strength behind their attacks.

"Lisanna, take the blond", Mira ordered.

He seemed to be shorter and even weaker than the brunette who stood beside him to the right who was taller and had a mischievous look on his face.

Lisanna used her takeover magic: cat to use her claws against the perpetrator. She managed to take him down while barely making and destructive blows. Mira, on the other hand knocked a whole wall down during her battle and even broke a few pots until her opponent fell. They didn't seem to be like much of a match, but the brown haired man was the one who caused most of the damage. At some point Laura noticed that he was not even aiming for her, but the cottage. His goal was not to knock them down. The blond seemed like just a distraction as well. Maybe they were searching the place or trying to cause us trouble and delay us.

After calling the custody force to pick the men up Elfman returned while carrying Freed over one shoulder and Warren over the other. Nab was also beside him quietly following. The Nab fellow was actually pretty quiet Lady Laura thought. She would have to trust someone soon. She felt trouble coming soon, not just for the swamp or the cottage, but much broader.

Mira seemed to take good care of her fallen friends and seemed really close with her sister, Lisanna, and the boy with black hair in bed recovering.

Laura walked over to Mira after she was done with the boys and tapped on her shoulder.

"Oh dearie, do you mind telling me your name again", Laura politely asked.

"Of course, I'm Mirajane, older sister to Lisanna and Elfman", she chirped.

"Oh yes, thank you. You're quite lovely. Helping your dear friends and watching over your siblings while helping around the cottage, but do you mind if I ask for a little assistance", Laura smiled.

"Well, of course", Mira looked at her a little surprised.

She did not talk much to the others and rarely ever asked for help, so why now? Maybe because her house was a mess. That would make sense.

"Your brother looks strong and there's only one other man awake. Could you possibly ask them to help rebuild the cottage? Also, I'm feeling a little stressed so I would like some company in the garden. Could you join me and ask your sister to watch over the boys", Laura asked favorably.

The construction request made sense like she had thought, but now she wants company? That was a first. Just at that moment she heard Warren groan.

"I would love to, I'll let them know but please excuse me first", Mira answered and then dashed off to Warren's side.

The guys searching for Knightwalker seemed to be calling out. She didn't want to worry them so she spoke up right away while she was still a little out of breath. She wouldn't say much to them about her thoughts about the infiltrator and explained the situation briefly to them. As expected they were worried but she reassured them. They agreed not to radio in from their side, but respond when reached. With that being the case they needed to work fast.

After talking with her comrades she went to Laura's side and aided her in her garden.

A few more days had passed by and Laura had finally began to trust her. It was also due to the fact that she partially heard the urgency through her friends last telecommunication and knew they probably were aware of something troublesome like herself. They seemed to trust the Warren fella and Mira seemed close to him so she finally opened up more.

While in the garden one morning she told Mira everything and to her shock Mira had told her she already knew and she hoped she could tell her more.

"It's obviously not you and I'm pretty much positive it is not Warren since nothing has come up since he talked to your friends. Your close to your siblings which gave me doubt in them, but only you could tell me if something was up with either of them", Laura breathed out.

"Their just like themselves", Mira confirmed.

"In that case, Freed and Nab are the only other options. Your friend Nab seems a little more suspicious though. He's very quiet", Laura pointed out.

"Nab is not much of a social butterfly. He usually is quiet...", Mira said before starting to think.

"He has seemed a lot more quiet than usual though. He helped fight off Midnight and Doriate before we arrived but when we all waited for you to wake he was not close by. After that day he did become more solemn", Mira thought out loud.

"We need to keep a watchful eye out for him", Lady Laura clued in.

The two nodded in agreement and continued on their work.

Mira decided to speak with Elfman privately later on as he told her about when him and Nab went off for Freed and Warren. While he wasn't paying attention at one point, Nab slipped away somewhere and returned after Elfman found the guys. Mira warned him to be weary of Nab and to tell Lisanna the same.

After about a week passed since everyone left the six of them they finally caught something. At one point Nab began to groan and squeeze his head like he had a migraine. Mira and Lisanna rushed to his side and Freed sat up to watch. Without much care or warning Mira grabbed a magazine, rolled it up, and smacked Nab across the face. He ended up falling over on his side as Lisanna called out to her sister. At this point Mira was positive.

"Nab", she called out to him.

He had no response.

"Why have you gone against us. We trusted you", Mira scowled.

"Can't...stop...can't...control", he let out through grunts of pain.

"He's fighting something. By the sounds of it", Freed burst out.

Lisanna was shocked, but Mira remained unaffected. Lady Laura rose to her feet and moved to Mira's side and rested her hand on her arm.

"It's not fully him", Laura spit out. She was no longer her cheerful carefree self. Now that the person was discovered she had no reason to act anymore.

"You mean to tell me he's being controlled", Mira asked, her eyes never leaving Nab.

"Precisely. He's finally fighting it back", Laura responded as she focused on the man on the floor as well.

"How can we help", Elfman came in.

"You can't. He must do this himself", Laura scoffed.

"You've never done a single job back at the guild. You proved yourself to be the most useless member of the guild. You never did much of anything beside stare at a board. You got fat over the years much like Droy, but he at least still tried to go on jobs", Mira scolded Nab.

"MIRA", Lisanna exclaimed horrified by her attitude,

"She's helping him", Freed stood up and walked over to them.

"To be honest I never really knew you were a member of the guild for at least a year. I always thought you were some weirdo tying to blend in with the others. I never even knew you had magic abilities", Freed joined in.

"I looked up to so many of the members when I was a kid. I wasn't much of a man then but I saw others who were. When I looked at you though, I knew you'd never be a man and amount to a thing and look at you now. I had a spark of hope when you beat the guy, but now, now I think it was for nothing", Elfman lectured him.

Lisanna gulped and thought carefully over her words.

"Nab... Please prove them wrong. You're a Fairy Tail member. You're family", She smiled as a few tears fell down her cheeks.

...

Warren was feeling much better and was able to contact Natsu's group with Freed while Nab recovered. Mira and Laura inspected his body the night before and uncovered a hidden lacrima discreetly attached to Nab's clothing.

Freed explained the situation to Wakaba and heard from their side as well. Seeing as Knightwalker was still unconscious he look to Lady Laura for help. She spoke of a herb that could help and the next day they decided Natsu and Gajeel would go out looking for it while Wakaba and Laxus checked shops in the town. That day Gajeel managed to find a small plant that held the herb and brought it back to be boiled into a soup for Knightwalker. Her fever seemed to drop. Lucy, Ashley, and Juvia, when she returned, decided to watch over her throughout the night.